Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Enterprise, java, open source, Red Hat on Feb 24th, 2010
Apparently it was Apache Web Server’s 15th birthday yesterday – congratulations to anyone who’s ever been involved in the project. I doubt any would have thought that 15 years on, Apache would have become the dominant Web Server on the Web and the foundation of one of the most successful and recognized Open Source forges. [...]
Posted in Red Hat on Apr 6th, 2009
Unsurprisingly and from what I’ve seen personally – tech. conference attendance is a little light this year. But if you have some budget for attending tech. conferences – I think the combined JBoss World / Red Hat Summit (Chicago, Sept 1st-4th) could be just about the best investment you make this year. You’ll learn about [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2009
RHEL 5.3 was released this week and one of the major new features is the inclusion of and full production support for OpenJDK. As I mentioned earlier – that’s great news for OpenJDK adoption and great news for RHEL and JBoss customers – Red Hat can now support a full Enterprise Linux and Java stack [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2009
Today Red Hat announced the availability of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 5.3 (press release, blog entry) one of the major enhancement is the inclusion of and full production support for OpenJDK 1.6 : Inclusion of OpenJDK : OpenJDK is a high-performance, fully open source implementation of Java SE 6. OpenJDK is based on the [...]
Posted in Web on Jan 3rd, 2009
It’s great to see Firefox’s market share is up again this month (according to Net Applications) – over 20% for the first time. The results reveal something interesting – that Firefox is increasingly the browser of choice (ie. large residential user base) whereas IE is still the corporate standard. Just as a reference point for [...]
Posted in Business, Technology on Nov 26th, 2008
Since first posting – I’ve added Open Office and Java FX – just goes to show – Sun have a lot of stuff. I promised myself I wouldn’t bite; yet here I am. I’m contributing to the “Here’s what Sun should do meme”. And why not - I’m as good a keyboard-CEO as the next [...]
Apple are on a roll – best quarter ever, $25bn in the bank and zero debt. They have more cash than Microsoft !! Here’s a good analysis that might surprise some – Apple are doing way better than they’re allowed to disclose through GAAP rules due to the subscription nature of the iPhone. Every cloud [...]
Posted in open source, Technology on Oct 16th, 2008
Originally uploaded by sharps With a bit of trimming, a swap-file and a new build – I now have Fedora 10 running pretty reliably on the OLPC. I wouldn’t call it snappy exactly but it’s a start. Fedora is running off a writeable live image (using a 4Gb SD Card) which also hosts the swap-file. [...]
Posted in Red Hat, Technology on Sep 26th, 2008
If you’re not already too late – there’s a chance to get your hands on a (mostly) free OLPC if you’re willing to commit to some testing of Fedora on the OLPC. I’ve signed up but fully expect my 7 year old daughter to be doing the testing The mostly free bit is that you [...]
We’re about half way through my first full Atlantic Hurricane Season. Hannah moved through North Carolina pretty quickly and fortunately left nothing but rain. I’ve looked at a few online hurricane trackers – but StormPulse is the nicest I’ve seen. There’s probably a really good, practical reason to run JBoss AS on an iPhone – [...]